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The second half of the article (merged from Social_Loafing) needs to be verified as it just sounds like pop-psychology babble rather than findings backed up by empirical data.
I agree that social loafing occurs less when tasks are more meaningful, but this is relative. I feel like the section describing rewards and decreases in social loafing should be edited to be more concrete. Doing group work with high anonymity often leads to social loafing until the reward far exceeds the ability to depend on someone else's contribution.
Just an idea.DB-- Buttonda ( talk) 19:42, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Teslawlo and AAHernan intend to significantly improve the overall completion of this article by adhering to the below new tentative outline for the article. Please note that any planned sources that are stated are not complete and that we do intend to add more sources as we begin re-writing the article. This effort is made as part of a university course project under the direction of Robertekraut. All feedback is appreciated.
Defining social loafing
History
Classic research
Contemporary research
Causes of social loafing
Effects of social loafing
Real-life instances
Reducing social loafing
References -- Teslawlo ( talk) 19:39, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
I haven't the time to review this article for GA, but I've put a call out to Wikiproject Psychology for reviewers. I can offer some suggestions, though, that will make the GA process a bit easier.
MartinPoulter ( talk) 15:47, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments. We have increased the size of the lead summary, edited the Wikipedia fundraising campaign mention, removed first-person language, and revised the researchers' names in the headings.
Teslawlo ( talk) 04:03, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
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Reviewer: MartinPoulter ( talk) 21:44, 6 May 2011 (UTC) I have made minor edits to this article before but do not consider myself a significant contributor.
I think the text is very good but the structure is confusing and there are sentences which need to be rephrased for Wikipedia's general audience. I'll make some changes and then give a more detailed review. This is a quality piece of work, and the language is often admirably clear, but for a GA review I necessarily have to focus on ways the article can be improved.
"One weakness in the research of Ringelmann was that the research could not distinguish between effort from coordination effects." This needs spelling out. "Coordination effects" have not been defined. Make it so that someone completely new to the topic of psychology can understand it. (P.S. Co-ordination is mentioned in the lede, so I'm being a bit pedantic here, but the word "co-ordination" is being used in a technical sense which will be unfamiliar to general readers, so it's worth having a few extra words to spell this meaning out MartinPoulter ( talk) 09:52, 9 May 2011 (UTC))
"In a 1993 meta-analysis study by Karau and Williams, they propose the Collective Effort Model (CEM), which is used to generate predictions for the meta-analysis that is subsequently conducted.[3] The CEM integrates expectancy theories with theories of group-level social comparison and social identity to account for studies that examine individual effort in collective settings. From a psychological state, it proposes that Expectancy multiplied by Instrumentality multiplied by Valence of Outcome produces the resulting Motivational Force." - a confusing paragraph. What is the first sentence trying to say? What are expectancy theories? They haven't been defined. How can you "multiply by" a valence, or by instrumentality? Are they measurable quantities? Is there an equation that needs to be spelled out? The next paragraph is better, but could perhaps be simplified.
"meta-analysis study" seems redundant. Why not just "meta-analysis"? Also, meta-analysis of what: how many studies were used?
The "student interactions..." and "Encouraging contributions..." sections look like they address the mitigation of social loafing, and so belong in the final section. I've been
bold and moved them myself. Still open to other ways of structuring the article.
Black Hawk shootdown incident: does the Snook reference explicitly use the term "social loafing", or is the connection of the incident to this article a piece of
original research? Page numbers for where he invokes a social loafing explanation would be welcome. I've confirmed that Snook does use the social loafing term and cite the Latane paper.
MartinPoulter ( talk) 21:44, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
The changingminds.org reference: I like the Changing Minds site, but blogs aren't suitable sources for Wikipedia because anyone can publish anything on a blog. Find the research that the blog is summarising and cite that instead. Removed the ref, since it didn't match up with preceding sentence.
There seems to be a lot of further reading. Some of these readings are already mentioned in the references: are they all recommended further reading? Been bold and trimmed it myself.
More details of the Blackburn ref (ISBN, page number) would be welcome but are not essential: would be good to make it easy for other people to check this text themselves. I replaced this with another ref.
Social facilitation needs a mention in the body text, not just as a see also link. We could do with a couple of sentences to distinguish when facilitation occurs rather than loafing.
Is the Kraut and Resnick ref definitely about social loafing? I can see how it's related, but the connection of that section to the topic of the article isn't clear from the start.
I'll be away from the computer for a couple of days after this.
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talk) 23:04, 6 May 2011 (UTC) Aaaand I'm back.
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What's the status on this review? Been a while since any comments. If the original review notes haven't been addressed by now the article should probably be failed. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 15:47, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Should Socialism be mentioned in this article? Under Criticisms of socialism#Reduced_incentives, this phenomenon is discussed yet it is not named. I think this phenomenon should at least be mentioned in the Criticisms of Socialism article. Urumia ( talk) 19:20, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Overall, this page was great and it explained social loafing thoroughly. However, I think one good way to show this theory is to explain how it relates to college or mainly educational environments. I know that when many students are assigned group work, there always seems to be this thought that we (each individual) needs to work less because there are more people. If this article talked about how social loafing can be seen in education, it would help improve the authenticity of this topic. Zbanihani14 ( talk) 01:37, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
The Zamanfou article covers the Social loafing phenomenon within Greek society. Thing is the article is pretty bad and its unlikely to improve in the future since even on Greek WP Zamanfou has been merged into the respective Social loafing article. I therefore propose incorporating what little info can be salvaged from Zamanfou into Social loafing.-- Catlemur ( talk) 20:44, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
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The second half of the article (merged from Social_Loafing) needs to be verified as it just sounds like pop-psychology babble rather than findings backed up by empirical data.
I agree that social loafing occurs less when tasks are more meaningful, but this is relative. I feel like the section describing rewards and decreases in social loafing should be edited to be more concrete. Doing group work with high anonymity often leads to social loafing until the reward far exceeds the ability to depend on someone else's contribution.
Just an idea.DB-- Buttonda ( talk) 19:42, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Teslawlo and AAHernan intend to significantly improve the overall completion of this article by adhering to the below new tentative outline for the article. Please note that any planned sources that are stated are not complete and that we do intend to add more sources as we begin re-writing the article. This effort is made as part of a university course project under the direction of Robertekraut. All feedback is appreciated.
Defining social loafing
History
Classic research
Contemporary research
Causes of social loafing
Effects of social loafing
Real-life instances
Reducing social loafing
References -- Teslawlo ( talk) 19:39, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
I haven't the time to review this article for GA, but I've put a call out to Wikiproject Psychology for reviewers. I can offer some suggestions, though, that will make the GA process a bit easier.
MartinPoulter ( talk) 15:47, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments. We have increased the size of the lead summary, edited the Wikipedia fundraising campaign mention, removed first-person language, and revised the researchers' names in the headings.
Teslawlo ( talk) 04:03, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
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Reviewer: MartinPoulter ( talk) 21:44, 6 May 2011 (UTC) I have made minor edits to this article before but do not consider myself a significant contributor.
I think the text is very good but the structure is confusing and there are sentences which need to be rephrased for Wikipedia's general audience. I'll make some changes and then give a more detailed review. This is a quality piece of work, and the language is often admirably clear, but for a GA review I necessarily have to focus on ways the article can be improved.
"One weakness in the research of Ringelmann was that the research could not distinguish between effort from coordination effects." This needs spelling out. "Coordination effects" have not been defined. Make it so that someone completely new to the topic of psychology can understand it. (P.S. Co-ordination is mentioned in the lede, so I'm being a bit pedantic here, but the word "co-ordination" is being used in a technical sense which will be unfamiliar to general readers, so it's worth having a few extra words to spell this meaning out MartinPoulter ( talk) 09:52, 9 May 2011 (UTC))
"In a 1993 meta-analysis study by Karau and Williams, they propose the Collective Effort Model (CEM), which is used to generate predictions for the meta-analysis that is subsequently conducted.[3] The CEM integrates expectancy theories with theories of group-level social comparison and social identity to account for studies that examine individual effort in collective settings. From a psychological state, it proposes that Expectancy multiplied by Instrumentality multiplied by Valence of Outcome produces the resulting Motivational Force." - a confusing paragraph. What is the first sentence trying to say? What are expectancy theories? They haven't been defined. How can you "multiply by" a valence, or by instrumentality? Are they measurable quantities? Is there an equation that needs to be spelled out? The next paragraph is better, but could perhaps be simplified.
"meta-analysis study" seems redundant. Why not just "meta-analysis"? Also, meta-analysis of what: how many studies were used?
The "student interactions..." and "Encouraging contributions..." sections look like they address the mitigation of social loafing, and so belong in the final section. I've been
bold and moved them myself. Still open to other ways of structuring the article.
Black Hawk shootdown incident: does the Snook reference explicitly use the term "social loafing", or is the connection of the incident to this article a piece of
original research? Page numbers for where he invokes a social loafing explanation would be welcome. I've confirmed that Snook does use the social loafing term and cite the Latane paper.
MartinPoulter ( talk) 21:44, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
The changingminds.org reference: I like the Changing Minds site, but blogs aren't suitable sources for Wikipedia because anyone can publish anything on a blog. Find the research that the blog is summarising and cite that instead. Removed the ref, since it didn't match up with preceding sentence.
There seems to be a lot of further reading. Some of these readings are already mentioned in the references: are they all recommended further reading? Been bold and trimmed it myself.
More details of the Blackburn ref (ISBN, page number) would be welcome but are not essential: would be good to make it easy for other people to check this text themselves. I replaced this with another ref.
Social facilitation needs a mention in the body text, not just as a see also link. We could do with a couple of sentences to distinguish when facilitation occurs rather than loafing.
Is the Kraut and Resnick ref definitely about social loafing? I can see how it's related, but the connection of that section to the topic of the article isn't clear from the start.
I'll be away from the computer for a couple of days after this.
MartinPoulter (
talk) 23:04, 6 May 2011 (UTC) Aaaand I'm back.
MartinPoulter (
talk) 09:33, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
What's the status on this review? Been a while since any comments. If the original review notes haven't been addressed by now the article should probably be failed. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 15:47, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Should Socialism be mentioned in this article? Under Criticisms of socialism#Reduced_incentives, this phenomenon is discussed yet it is not named. I think this phenomenon should at least be mentioned in the Criticisms of Socialism article. Urumia ( talk) 19:20, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Overall, this page was great and it explained social loafing thoroughly. However, I think one good way to show this theory is to explain how it relates to college or mainly educational environments. I know that when many students are assigned group work, there always seems to be this thought that we (each individual) needs to work less because there are more people. If this article talked about how social loafing can be seen in education, it would help improve the authenticity of this topic. Zbanihani14 ( talk) 01:37, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
The Zamanfou article covers the Social loafing phenomenon within Greek society. Thing is the article is pretty bad and its unlikely to improve in the future since even on Greek WP Zamanfou has been merged into the respective Social loafing article. I therefore propose incorporating what little info can be salvaged from Zamanfou into Social loafing.-- Catlemur ( talk) 20:44, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 2 February 2021 and 14 May 2021. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
TylerLight (
article contribs).
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 30 January 2024 and 9 May 2024. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
Macieyale,
BrookeCostigan (
article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Samanthaconway25 ( talk) 18:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)